Benny Chan will not Waste Money on Courting - Steven Ma receives complaints about Mispronunciation TVB series "A Change of Destiny" held a promotional event at a bowling alley yesterday, attended by Benny Chan, Steven Ma, Shirley Yeung, Joel Chan, Yuen Wah and Selena Li. The artistes split into three teams, led by Steven, Joel and Benny and it was Joel's team who won in the end. Benny emerged as the person with the worst score. Benny admitted that his game was poor and says that he will never spend money taking girls on dates and he will not do any sports that involve paying because if he does not succeed in courting, then he will lose out. As a result, he feels that the best place to date a girl is at the beach. Talking of the series reaching ratings of 29 points, will he wear swimming trunks and appear on the beach if it breaks 30 points? Benny immediately pushed it onto Steven as the main lead before laughing that if the producer appeared in trunks, then it would be a good sight. Also, Steven has been accused by netizens of mispronouncing a word in one of his scenes, where the word normally pronounced 'gei' was said as 'kei', whilst Joel has also received complaints about saying the word 'dee' like the English letter 'D'. Steven explains that he had the same line of poetry in the series "Where the Legend Begins" and during filming, the producer had checked with a Professor of Chinese Literature to make sure that the word was pronounced 'kei' in the poetic sense. As for the criticisms, Steven says: "I welcome them, because this makes the production more interactive. I feel that if we were too pedantic about our words, the audience would be bored to death." Shirley, Joel and producer Tsui Yu On all feel that to have colloquial words in the show is acceptable because their roles are town ruffians who would not be able to use literary sayings. Source: Takungpao
